Re: [ANNOUNCE][CFT] kexec for v2.5.48 && kexec-tools-1.7

Martin J. Bligh
2002-11-19T15:25:15Z

> I suspect the hardware shutdown and start up logic for NUMAQ cpus
> needs some special handling.

Almost certainly ;-) One of the main things I do differently on boot
is to use NMIs rather than the normal INIT/STARTUP sequence to bootstrap
CPUs with .... thus they aren't as thoroughly reset. Things like clearing
down the local APIC state (but NOT the LDR) and clearing down the IO-APICs
will be especially important. I haven't looked at your code yet to see
exactly what it does here though.

> Small steps. When I bypass the BIOS I need to get all of the information
> the kernel normally would get from the BIOS from someplace else. Currently
> you can use the "mem= " kernel command line parameters. Of you can dig the
> /proc/iomem and /proc/meminfo and other places and get the BIOS's memory map.
> There isn't a really good source, so I started with something that would work,
> and I will work the user space tools up to something that works well.
>
> I will happily accept patches :)

Sounds like we should just export back to you the value we parsed from
the BIOS from the existing boot, no? I'll see if I can make you a patch
to do that ...

M.